| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: The Firm of Nucingen
Grandet, Charles
The Firm of Nucingen
Keller, Francois
Domestic Peace
Cesar Birotteau
The Government Clerks
The Member for Arcis
Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des
The Muse of the Department
A Bachelor's Establishment
Eugenie Grandet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: has not yet been taken? It is quite possible that the obscurity of the
Parmenides would not have existed to a contemporary student of philosophy,
and, like the similar difficulty in the Philebus, is really due to our
ignorance of the mind of the age. There is an obscure Megarian influence
on Plato which cannot wholly be cleared up, and is not much illustrated by
the doubtful tradition of his retirement to Megara after the death of
Socrates. For Megara was within a walk of Athens (Phaedr.), and Plato
might have learned the Megarian doctrines without settling there.
We may begin by remarking that the theses of Parmenides are expressly said
to follow the method of Zeno, and that the complex dilemma, though declared
to be capable of universal application, is applied in this instance to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: unreasoning hate. That flap of the elbow was tearing Terry
Platt's nerves into raw, bleeding fragments.
Her fingers were clenched tightly under the table, now. She was
breathing unevenly. "If he does that again," she told herself,
"if he flaps again when he opens the second egg, I'll scream.
I'll scream. I'll scream! I'll sc----"
He had scooped the first egg into his cup. Now he picked up the
second, chipped it, concentrated, straightened, then--up went the
elbow, and down, with the accustomed little flap.
The tortured nerves snapped. Through the early-morning quiet of
Wetona, Wisconsin, hurtled the shrill, piercing shriek of Terry
One Basket |
